DAVISON COUNTY MARKET

Davison County, South Dakota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Ethan, Loomis and and Mount Vernon buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Davison County by the Numbers

Davison County has 406 farms on 223,994 acres (about 552 acres each). Together they sold $137.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

9 farms in Davison County already sell straight to the public, about $15,000 a year in direct sales. Crop Market gives them, and every backyard grower, a free way to reach more neighbors.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Davison County

Davison County farms and homesteads keep 119,558 hogs, 16,720 head of cattle and 2,664 sheep.

About 708 people run or help run farms in Davison County, with an average age of 53. 31% of them are women. 144 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.